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...other, just as inexperienced males may question their own potency or masculinity. Having intercourse only intensifies these worries if the first experiences prove disappointing. In fact they often do. Psychiatrist Moskowitz notes that adolescents are saturated with sexual talk and books, and may take as the norm the improbable exploits they see in pornographic films. Thus they develop superhuman expectations. Young girls believe that they should have intoxicating orgasms beginning with their first night in bed with a boy. Even when sex itself is pleasurable, young people are often aware that something is missing. As a young construction worker told...
...suggestions he liked to make, he was really not sleeping with his pretty secretary, the poor chap felt obliged to fire her and take another job himself. Here, as elsewhere, Korda often chooses an odd example, then proceeds on the assumption that it is some kind of norm. In real life, secretaries are often victimized. But how many have been fired-as happens to another Korda victim-because the boss's wife saw them driving away from work in an aunt's Rolls-Royce...
...equally important in Harvard's charge to the title has been the excellent hurling of Don Driscoll, Norm Walsh, Mike O'Malley and a host of others...
...Norm Walsh, whom Park calls "my most valuable pitcher," has served the Crimson time and time again in key relief situations. "What makes Norm so valuable is that Bob [Lincoln-pitching coach] and I have complete confidence in him. We feel we can call on him any time and have him do a great...
...Friars threatened with their only run in the second, as starter O'Malley gave up a hit to George Mello, a walk to Larry Thomas and an RBI single to Bob Dembek. But that was all Providence would get, as O'Malley and Norm Walsh, who came on in the eighth to get the final two outs of the inning, held the Friars' bats in check...